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How They Decorated slideshow

  • Pauline de Rothschild s Paris home photographed for Vogue. A pair of low Louis XVI chairs can be seen here.
    Photo: Horst P. Horst, Courtesy of Rizzoli.
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    Pauline de Rothschild’s Paris home, photographed for Vogue. A pair of low Louis XVI chairs can be seen here.

  • Photo: Horst P. Horst, Courtesy of Rizzoli.
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    The modern home of Gabrielle van Zuylen, also photographed for Vogue.

  • Photograph: Jeremiah Goodman, Courtesy of Rizzoli
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    The library of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Paris apartment, captured by artist Jeremiah Goodman.

  • Photo: Courtesy of Rizzoli
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    Bunny Mellon’s Oak Spring Garden Library, which contained a monumental 1954 Mark Rothko canvas. Mellon, a horticultural enthusiast, once said, “a garden, like a library, is a whole made up of separate interests and mysteries.”

  • Photo: Balthazar Korab, Courtesy of Rizzoli.
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    O’Keeffe’s Sky Above Clouds / Yellow Horizon and Clouds and Above the Clouds I, as seen inside the artist’s home.